Conversations with Other Women (2005)

When a man and woman flirt with each other at a wedding reception, the sexual tension seems spontaneous. As they break from the party to a hotel room, the flirtation turns into a night filled with passion and remorse.

Director:

Hans Canosa

Writer:

Gabrielle Zevin

Stars:

Aaron Eckhart, Helena Bonham Carter, Yury Tsykun

3 wins & 4 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview:
Aaron Eckhart	...	Man
Helena Bonham Carter	...	Woman
Yury Tsykun	...	Bartender at Wedding
Brian Geraghty	...	Groom
Brianna Brown	...	Bride
Thomas Lennon	...	Videographer
Erik Eidem	...	Young Man
Nora Zehetner	...	Young Woman
David Franklin	...	Bartender in Bar
Olivia Wilde	...	Bridesmaid
Cerina Vincent	...	Sarah the Dancer
Philip Littell	...	Jeffrey the Cardiologist
Rozanne Sher	...	Girl on Street
Veronica Reyes-How	...	Girl on Street (as Veronica Reyes)
Emily Fernandez	...	Girl on Street

Storyline

A man runs into a woman at a wedding. They start to flirt and talk and find that they get along. Throughout their discussion, the man talks about certain memories as if they were common to the two of them. We gradually learn that there may have been a previous connection between these two when they were younger. This just leaves more questions as their past is slowly revealed.

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Plot Keywords:

wedding | memory | adultery | alcohol | one night stand | 

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Taglines:

there are two sides to every love story

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for language and sexual content

Details

Official Sites:

Fabrication Films [us] MK2 [fr]

Country:

UK USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

18 May 2007 (UK)

Also Known As:

A nő másik arca

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$450,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$46,684 (USA) (18 August 2006)

Gross:

$379,122 (USA) (3 November 2006)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Gordonstreet Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

84 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.39:1

Did You Know?

Trivia

A potential continuity error was fixed with visual effects. Due to the short shooting schedule and lack of control of the sound stage, the soles of the actors' bare feet became soiled while shooting on the hotel room set. Shots captured included views of the actors' dirty feet as they got into and out of a clean bed, which would be unlikely in a carpeted hotel room. An error that was not caught by the Script Supervisor on set. During post production, the Director/Editor discovered that 5 shots included in the final edit would include dirty soles. In order to address the problem, the visual effects supervisor rotoscoped the bottom of the actors' feet to delineate the parts of the frame that needed to be replaced. Since shooting replacement soles against green screen in the precise size and angles necessary to fill the rotoscoped sections would be cost prohibitive, the digital compositor searched the Internet for replacement feet photographs. He discovered that the best and highest resolution images of feet were on foot fetish websites. Thus the replacement feet in those five shots are "pornographic feet".

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Quotes

[first lines]
Man: Wish me luck.

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Connections

Featured in 2006 Independent Spirit Awards (2006)

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Soundtracks

"L'excessive"
Music by Carla Bruni

User Reviews

An Emotional One-Night Stand Made Uniquely Resonant by a Split Screen and Carter's Superb Work

There are so many conventional movies about adulterous chance meetings that the prospects of another one wouldn't seem to be too promising. However, director Hans Canosa takes a rather novel approach with this small-scale 2006 indie film in looking at the illicit one-night stand with a pervasive split-screen process. Most often, the two sides reflect the perspectives from the man and woman at the center of the story, and at other times, we see their individual memories as flashbacks to their youthful courtship. Initially, the gimmicky aspect of watching the duality of the action is rather jarring, but it gradually becomes a dramatically effective means for exhibiting the dynamics of the two characters in real time. Gabrielle Zevin's sharply delineated, often amusing dialogue also helps to bring an immediacy to what could have been a predictably drawn situation.

The intimate, verbose plot itself turns on several contrivances, some more forgivable than others (like the absence of names for the lovers and the misunderstanding arising from matching cell phones). Regardless, it's really the adroit charm and emotional dexterity of the actors that sets this movie apart. Playing yet another rascally man-child, Aaron Eckhart adds shades of mid-life romantic vulnerability that make his character likeably flawed. But the picture really belongs to Helena Bonham Carter's richly textured performance as the woman, easily her best work since 1997's "The Wings of the Dove". As a complacent married woman who feels herself hurtling palpably toward forty, she provides such revealing nuance with each scene that I ended up wondering more about her character's fate than his. With her sad dark eyes and pouty mouth, she looks more like legendary French actress Jeanne Moreau as the years pass.

Shot in only thirteen days and with a running time of only 84 minutes, the movie is quite small in scope, but it is also a relatively undiscovered gem that will hopefully take on new life on DVD. Speaking of which, the 2007 DVD has a surprisingly robust number of extras beginning with Canosa's thoughtful commentary track. Also included are an entertaining 25-minute interview with an easily bantering Eckhart and Carter from the Telluride Film Festival; an insightful five-minute short with the director showing a demo of his dual-camera film-making technique; a helpful four-minute explanation of why split-screen was used specifically for the film; and a less interesting, more technical twenty-minute demonstration of how Canosa used Apple Final Cut Pro software to make his complex edits.